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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men guard the gate of the Saxon village in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 3, what does Axl smell when they are in the Saxon village?

3. What does Edwin remember Steffen telling him in Chapter 4 that the villagers hid from in the barn when Edwin was very young?

4. In Chapter 2, what question does Beatrice remember the old woman in rags asking her?

5. In Chapter 2, what does Beatrice give Axl to carry when they prepare to cross the Great Plain?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 1, how does Beatrice think they will find their son's village?

2. In Chapter 5, what roles do Wistan and Edwin assume when they meet soldiers at a bridge?

3. What do the soldiers look like that Axl and his group encounter in Chapter 5?

4. What does Wisan want Axl and Beatrice to do in Chapter 3 and why?

5. In Chapter 5, who do Axl and his group meet under an oak tree?

6. In Chapter 2, what does Beatrice tell Axl about the woman in rags that she spoke with a while back?

7. In Chapter 2, what is the villa like where Beatrice and Axl take shelter?

8. What is the place like where Axl and Beatrice live?

9. In Chapter 2, what difficulties are there in traveling in open country?

10. Why does the boatman say that he is at the villa in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A wagon with a cage is found at the monastery. What is the purpose of the wagon and cage? In what way is the use of the cart a ritual? Why do the monks use the wagon and cage as penance? How successful has the use of the wagon and cart been?

Essay Topic 2

There seems to be a universal loss of memory of the people in the novel. What causes this amnesia? What was the purpose of the mist? Did the mist serve its purpose?

Essay Topic 3

Wistan has to make do with what he has at the monastery to keep himself and the other safe. How does Wistan make use of the resources he finds at the monastery? In what way is he resourceful there and in other places in the book?

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